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** In ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'' Tora and [[spoiler:Morag]] has aggro-raising arts with their default Blades, and are designed to be tanks. Other "aggro up" arts can be used with Chroma Katanas and Shield Hammers. There's also two NewGamePlus-only Blades [[spoiler:Cressidus and Sever]] and Korvin, a DLC Blade, whose weapons also has arts with "aggro up" effect.

* ''LightNovel/RebuildWorld'': When Akira is fighting an AttackOfThe50FootWhatever Tiol, he has just been proven to be seriously under-gunned for the conflict, barely staggering much smaller monsters and being reduced to a supporting role for a much more deadly BadassMindsThinkAlike teammate. Since the opponent Tiol is a GreenEyedMonster driven by ThePowerOfHate facing SanitySlippage, he can't help but scream and charge at Akira when he sees him, which Akira takes advantage of to save and create openings for his teammate.
* ''LightNovel/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero'': Naofumi's "Hate Reaction" spell is literally comprised of this trope, as it aggros all selected (he can select the amount of foes to aggro) foes to focus on him, usually used to draw attention off of Filo and Raphtalia so that they have less foes to deal with when facing a boss-type monster and so forth.

* At the opening of the Battle of Yavin in ''Film/ANewHope'', Garven Dreis (Red Leader) leads Red Squadron in several strafing runs across the Death Star's surface to draw Imperial fire away from Gold Squadron's slower Y-Wings. However, Darth Vader sees through this, ordering all TIE Fighters to attack the X-Wings while he and his personal squadron attack the Y-Wings.
* Occurs in ''Film/TheLastJedi'' as the First Order's fleet bombards the Rebellion main cruiser, the ''Raddus'', with a relentless barrage, [[spoiler: General Leia and Vice-Admiral Holdo devised an evacuation strategy by having almost everyone stealthily leaving the ''Raddus'' in a number of small shuttles, [[HeroicSacrifice while Holdo alone remained behind to pilot the]] ''[[HeroicSacrifice Raddus]]'' [[HeroicSacrifice to continue to draw the First Order's attention on the larger ship]].]][[spoiler: It's subverted when the plan fails and the First Order starts firing on the escaping shuttles, but unwilling to see her allies mercilessly picked off, Holdo turns the ''Raddus'' towards the First Order's immense flagship and activates the hyperdrive, effectively ''[[RammingAlwaysWorks ramming the ship at light-speed]]''.]]

* In ''Film/TheRunningMan'', Richards taunts Dynamo to draw him away from Amber.
* In ''Film/{{Aliens}}'', when the Alien Queen reveals itself on the ship, Ripley waves her arms and yells "Here! Over here!" When the Queen focuses on her, Ripley tells Newt to run away. (Newt hides in the vents, and then Ripley runs the other way.)
* ''Film/TheHuntForRedOctober'': During the climactic battle, ''Konovalov'' has ''Red October'' dead to rights with a torpedo launched from dead astern. Suddenly the smaller and more nimble ''Dallas'' veers between ''Red October'' and the torpedo, overlapping their sonar silouhettes and banging away with her own sonar to draw the torpedo off of ''Red October'' before launching countermeasures and blowing their emergency ballast to rapidly surface in order to dodge the torpedo at the last moment.
-->'''Thompson''': I hope to Christ this works. [[DangerDeadpan Alright Chief, put us on the roof.]]
* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing'': Merry and Pippin call out to the Uruk Hai to distract them from Frodo's hiding place.
-->'''Pippin''': It's working!\\
'''Merry''': I know it's working, RUN!
* In the fifth novel of RPGMechanicsVerse LightNovel ''Literature/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon'' franchise (episode [=S1E10=] of the anime), Yamato, facing injuries within her own parties, accidentally lures a large group of monsters onto Bell's group while attempting to run away. Since Bell and the others were already fighting several, this forces them to run away as well, and they end up even deeper in the dungeon as a result.

* In ''Literature/TheAvatarChronicles - Epic'' by Conor Kostick, in the eponymous game, Erik discovers that smaller creatures will switch the person they're aggroing to whoever's doing the most damage, and that if a team does an equal amount of damage to a creature - enough that one hit changes the person it targets - the creature will stay in place, doing nothing but turning toward whoever hit it last. Dragons are supposed to be nigh-unbeatable, but given several hours and a couple thousand arrows, they're able to apply this strategy to the Red Dragon and bring it down.
* ''Literature/JourneyToChaos'': this tactic is part of the Triple Orbit Layers strategy used by adventurers. When confronting a large fire monster, Tiza screams at it, waves her water-attribute weapon and inflicts minor damage to keep the monster's attention.

* In ''The Hope of Elantris'', the nanny Matisse draws the Aon Ashe in order to blind the attacking Dakhor monks and lead them away from the fleeing children.
* ''Literature/EgilsSaga'': Twelve-year-old Egil and his friend Thord are playing a ball game against Egil's father Skallagrim when Skallagrim suddenly goes into a berserk fury, grabs Thord and kills him by dashing him into the ground. When Skallagrim seizes Egil, with the apparent intent of killing him in a like way, his serving-woman Thorgerd Brak "who had fostered Egil when he was a child" shouts at him that he is attacking his own son "like a mad beast". Skallagrim lets go of Egil and charges at Thorgerd, who runs away and dives over a cliff in order to escape swimming, but Skallagrim hurls a boulder after her which kills her. Skallagrim's fury then wears off, and he reverts to his normal self.

* In ''Videogame/SouthParkTheStickOfTruth'', [[ButtMonkey Butters]] has the "Born Victim" passive ability that makes enemies more likely to attack him than you. The explanation given is that he is just ''so'' pure and innocent that it's disgusting to every other living thing on the planet, and they just can't help wanting to beat the crap out of him. Ironically it was intended to be a ''bad'' trait to balance his otherwise overall usefulness as a Paladin with access to healing, buffing, and powerful attacks, but as it tends to be [[CursedWithAwesome more useful than harmful]] it effectively made Butters [[FakeBalance the best party member in the game]].

* ''LightNovel/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon'' is an RPGMechanicsVerse work. In the Fifth Novel (episode 10 of the anime), Yamato, facing injuries within her own parties, accidentally lures a large group of monsters onto Bell's group while attempting to run away. Since Bell and the others were already fighting several, this forces them to run away as well, and they end up even deeper in the dungeon as a result.

** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' has tank jobs whose purpose is to yank aggro(called "enmity" in-game) off other party members and keep it upon themselves, since tanks have the highest HP and defense naturally. Some non-tank classes also have skills that lets them reduce aggro on themselves so that the tank has an easier time having the enemy focus on the tank instead. However, some bosses rely on scripts instead of the aggro table and will attack whoever they please.

* ''WesternAnimation/WhatsNewScoobyDoo'': In "[[Recap/WhatsNewScoobyDooS1E1TheresNoCreatureLikeSnowCreature There's No Creature Like Snow Creature]]", the gang encounters the spook of the week, a towering ice-man. Velma, who bundled herself in winter clothes to the point that she looks like a ball, can't keep up with the others. Fred comes back, shines his flashlight at the creature's face, and yells at it to pick on someone its own size, drawing it away from Velma.

* Along with being ComicRelief, this is the purpose of a Rodeo Clown. When a bullrider is thrown from the bull, the clown will attract the attention of the bull and keep it occupied long enough for the rider to be rescued.

%%* The ''Machinima/LeeroyJenkinsVideo'' has Leeroy doing this to nearly every mob in the Rookery of the Upper Blackrock Spire as a result of his reckless one-man charge into the Rookery. The rest of the raid are quickly overwhelmed when they try to save him, and things are not helped at all by the idiotic plan that they had concocted to take the instance on.

* ''Film/TheHuntForRedOctober'': During the climactic battle, ''Konovalov'' has ''Red October'' dead to rights with a torpedo launched from dead astern. Suddenly ''Dallas'' veers between ''Red October'' and the torpedo, overlapping their sonar silouhettes and banging away with her own sonar to draw the torpedo off of ''Red October'' before launching countermeasures and blowing their emergency ballast to rapidly surface in order to dodge the torpedo at the last moment.

* "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Weasel Wild Weasels]]", fighters and attack aircraft that hunt enemy AntiAir by flying at top speed over the target and then firing radar tracking missiles at anything that shoots back. Wild Weasel missions are extremely dangerous (verging on SuicideMission), but a necessary operation to ensure the safety of bombers and fighters operating in the area.

* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing'': Merry and Pippin run into the Uruk Hai to distract them from Frodo's hiding place.

** When Spoony talked about the ArtificialStupidity in ''VideoGame/TheBureauXCOMDeclassified'', he mentions trying to turn it to his advantage by invoking this trope, by trying to use the aggressive [=NPCs=] in the squad to draw fire to them while he moved to the objective. Unfortunately, the AI just followed where he went, drawing fire to the group and his player character.

* ''WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment'':